Things you really need to know about staying plugged in on the road
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Portable computers are usually sold to allow a computer's owner to conduct business remotely, contacting home or the office from hotel rooms or other distant sites. Actually accomplishing this can be difficult. In theory, a modem is all that is required: all that needs to be done is to connect a portable computer to s standard telephone line. But telephone equipment in hotels might be incompatible, or phone jacks might be unavailable or hard to find. Making calls from some places can be difficult because calls go through an operator or long strings of numbers must be dialed. Tips for travelers using laptop or portable computers include the following: choose hotels that have phone jacks in their rooms; carry spare parts for making connections; where phones are 'hard wired,' consider using an acoustic coupler; consider using a 'fax modem' instead of a printer; and if a company's computers cannot be dialed directly, consider an electronic mail (E-mail) service as an alternative.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1992
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E-mail delivers first-class package of useful simplicity
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AT and T's AT and T Mail, MCI Communications Corp's MCI Mail and the CompuServe on-line database service are examples of inexpensive commercial electronic mail (E-mail) services available to just about anyone with a microcomputer, a modem and some simple software. Users can write and read messages while not connected to the system. Automatic dialing software can link a user to the system with the touch of a key or a tap on a mouse and send and receive bevies of messages at once. Users are assigned an 'electronic mailbox,' or a bit of disk memory on one of the commercial service's mainframe computers. For an additional fee, the services will fax messages to users without computers. Exchanging messages with users of rival networks is generally permitted. Prices vary; MCI Mail costs $35 per year. Messages cost 50 cents for the first 500 characters and 10 cents for the following 500 characters.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1993
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On the Web, CNN shines in design, MSNBC in the news
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The two TV news sites with the greatest scope and ambition on the Web are the CNN and the MSNBC sites. CNN has the cleanest, easiest to navigate through Web site, more so than even the MSNBC site, which Microsoft operates. Microsoft owns half of the companion cable news network along with NBC. Their Web site has some of the most original journalism on the Web, outdoing even CNN, which created the concept of the all-news television channel. MSNBC uses material from wire services and the NBC news. It has a staff of 60 journalists and has succeeded in utilizing the Web's capabilities more efficiently than CNN has. CNN has introduced a new section on its site called CNN Plus, which contains consumer news, news-based games and chat rooms.
Publication Name: The Wall Street Journal Western Edition
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0193-2241
Year: 1997
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